Waterproofing your wood is essential. It not only protects wood from moisture damage and damp, it also preserves the natural color from the elements including UV damage caused by the sun. If wood is left untreated it will cause it to split, crack and rot […]
How to Rewire a House DIY for Your TV
These days, rewiring your home for TV requires installing Cat 5 cable and coaxial cable in order to prepare your home for receiving an internet signal for your TV, your phone and other communication systems. Although this type of job can be daunting for the […]
Skin Care Benefits of Pine Tar Soap
Pine Tar Soap is excellent for many skin conditions such as dryness, dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis and other flaky skin conditions. According to scientific research, pine tar is an effective topical treatment for many skin disorders and has minimal safety risks. In addition, pine tar has […]
How to Refinish Wood Floors DIY
Wood floors look fantastic but with such hard treatment in the average home, they can soon become scuffed scratched and discoloured. The good news is that in most cases you don’t need to strip the wood back to bare wood to make your wood floor […]
How to Stay Clean While Camping
You can’t expect to stay as clean as you do in your normal life, when you are out in the wilds, and you are far away from the shower and the bathroom; this is all part of the charm of getting back to nature. However, […]
What to Do with Pumpkins After Halloween
Every Halloween we buy millions of pumpkins to decorate our homes as Jack O lanterns, but once Halloween is over, most of these are dumped in the trash. The numbers are mind-blowing. According to the Dept of Energy this adds up to a whopping 1.3 […]
How to Whitewash Wood
If you want to create a rustic and classy farm house look for your wooden furniture or fixtures, whitewashing or pickling is an easy job that gives great results. If you watch TV shows on DIY and Décor such as HGTV you will see that […]
How to Use Active Dry Yeast
If you make bread yourself you are probably familiar with those small sachets of yeast you can buy in the store so you probably already know that the yeast is the crucial part of any bread making. Yeast is a tiny living organism. There are […]
DIY Pumpkin Decorations for Fall
We love pumpkins and nothing says Halloween and the Fall more than these fantastic orange globes crammed full of natural goodness. However it can be a pain hand carving pumpkin jack o lanterns each year and sometimes you may want to just get seasonal rather […]
Home Projects for Late Summer
As we approach the end of summer it is a good time to think about those projects you’ve been meaning to do while the weather is still warm and before we move into autumn. Clean your gutters: Before your gutters are filled again with leaves […]